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Egidio Forcellini (August 26, 1688April 5, 1768) was an Italian
philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...
. Forcellini was born at Fener in the district of
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and belonged to a very poor family. He went to the seminary at
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in 1704, studied under Facciolati, and in due course attained the priesthood. From 1724 to 1730 he held the office of rector of the seminary at Ceneda, and from 1731 to 1765 that of father confessor in the seminary of Padua. The remaining years of his life were mainly spent in his native village. He died at Padua in 1768 before the completion of the great work on which he had long co-operated with Facciolati. This was the vast ''Latin Lexicon'', which formed the basis of all similar works subsequently published until the ''
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae The ''Thesaurus Linguae Latinae'' (abbreviated as ''ThLL'' or ''TLL'') is a monumental dictionary of Latin founded on historical principles. It encompasses the Latin language from the time of its origin to the time of Isidore of Seville (died ...
''. He was engaged with his Herculean task for nearly thirty-five years, and the transcription of the manuscript by Luigi Violato occupied eight years more.


Bibliography

* ''Totius Latinitatis lexicon, consilio et cura Jacobi Facciolati opera et studio Aegidii Forcellini, lucubratum''. Patavii: typis Seminarii, 4 voll., 1771 * ''Totius Latinitatis lexicon, consilio et cura Jacobi Facciolati opera et studio Aegidii Forcellini lucubratum; in hac tertia editione auctum et emendatum a Josepho Furlanetto''. Patavii: typis Seminarii, 4 voll., 1827-1831 * ''Totius latinitatis lexicon, opera et studio Aegidii Forcellini lucubratum; et in hac editione post tertiam auctam et emendatam a Josepho Furlanetto alumno seminarii patavini novo ordine digestum amplissime auctum atque emendatum cura et studio Vincentii De Vit''. Prati: Typis Aldinianis, 1858-1879 * ''Lexicon totius latinitatis J. Facciolati, Aeg. Forcellini et J. Furlanetti seminarii patavini alumnorum cura, opera et studio lucubratum nunc demum juxta opera R. Klotz, G. Freund, L. Doderlein aliorumque recentiorum auctius, emendatius melioremque in formam redactum curante doct. Francisco Corradini ejusdem seminarii alumno''. Patavii: Typis Seminarii, 1896


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1688 births 1768 deaths Italian philologists Italian lexicographers Italian Latinists 18th-century lexicographers {{Italy-scientist-stub